Jacques Hébert (Canadian politician)

Jacques Hébert, OC (June 21, 1923 – December 6, 2007) was a Canadian author, journalist, publisher, Senator and world traveller who visited more than 130 countries.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Jacques Hébert began attending Saint Dunstan's University in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island at age 16.

Hébert was a close friend of Pierre Trudeau and travelled with him to the People's Republic of China in 1960 in the midst of the Great Leap Forward.

The two met both Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai and recorded their observations in the book Deux innocents en Chine rouge (1961).

In 1986, he went on a hunger strike for 21 days to protest a decision by the Progressive Conservative government to end the Katimavik program for Canadian youth, which he created in 1977.

We see Roger Garand, Jacques Hébert and René L. Caron, respectively director, consultant and designer of the show la revue Bleu et or presented at the University of Montreal.